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US Congress report argues Zelaya’s ousting was “legal and constitutional”
A report from the US Library of Congress legal branch released this week concluded that the ousting of elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was “legal and constitutional”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHONDURAS: Mons.Luis Santos (S.Rosa) dijo en entrevista radial que el golpe ”que viola la constitución, coarta las garantías y obliga al pueblo a la insurreccion. Causa inestabilidad e intranquilidad y ha provocado lesionados y muertos lo que constituyen delitos de lesa humanidad y por lo tanto imprescriptibles... los candidatos electorales están manchados por el golpe de estado y con esos candidatos las elecciones van a estar manchadas también... Los que están apuntalando el golpe son el P. Liberal, La Dem. Cristiana (menciona otros dos partidos..) El sector privado que apoyó el golpe debería pensar que es preferible que haya paz. Vinieron a hacer dinero a Honduras y los hondureños nos hemos quedado con las actividades de más riesgo. Muchos de ellos tienen ya sus dineros fuera de Honduras. Los obismos fuimos engañados. En una reunión nos dijeron que cualquiera podría apresar al presidente y eso está fuera de la ley. La orden de captura no era auténtica. Es hora de acusar a los responsables.”
Sep 26th, 2009 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only way to solve the issue today is a moratorium whereby both the ousted Zelaya and the insurgent president step down. Elections should be postponed to give time to a consensus. A neutral body supervised by the UN should manage the setting up of the elections whereby the interests of all concerned are given equal treatment. Any other pact will always have the risk of being unfair to either of the sides and strife would return to Honduras. All involved must think first of the people of Honduras who already have suffered a lot.
Sep 26th, 2009 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0more idioticimperial golpista propaganda.
Sep 26th, 2009 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where does the Congressional Research Service of the United States get the authority to make pronouncements about the internal political situation in another country? Lets see the CRS prepare a report determining who really won the presidential election of 2000 in its own country rather than pontificating on the internal political situation in another country!
Sep 27th, 2009 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0ToTim: The Library of Congress has a research arm, the Congressional Research Service, whose purpose is to answer requests from members of Congress regarding specific issues. I have used it when I worked for Congress and as a reporter covering the Hill. They are basically a non-partisan group of experts/specialists who team up to answer a question within their sphere of knowledge.
Sep 27th, 2009 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some of their reports are very valuable to scholars who want to have a printed out timeline of events for a country or a piece of legislation, etc.
There is nothing sinister about it.
”... the expulsion of Mr. Zelaya from Costa Rica was “illegal”. He wasn't expelled from Costa Rica, he was expelled from Honduras. He left Costa Rica voluntarily and entered Nicaragua.
Sep 27th, 2009 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If people would only READ the Honduran constitution they would convince themselves that it guards itself against any possible movement for re-election. Zelaya knowingly tried to upset those provisions. He broke the law and every other power supported his expulsion. If the constitution is out of line, this should have been resolved by the OAS previously, not now.
Sep 28th, 2009 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0cual golpe?? ya vieron que es constitucional??? QUe barbaros! acaso no ven la realidad?
Sep 29th, 2009 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0VIVA MICHELETTI!!
Sep 29th, 2009 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0yea sure...the hondurian constitution say that you can kick president´s ass when hi is in pijamas and send him abroad...jejejeje....you are a joke!!
Sep 29th, 2009 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0tofriedman; so you say that this was a non political court and they say that the cout d´etat was legal?? mmmmmm I don´t think it´s a non political court, it seem a hiper conservative gang from the residual bush era.
Sep 29th, 2009 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Zelaya's actions may have been illegal, but if the only way a government can remove its leader is through military action, then that nation is not a democratic state.
Oct 01st, 2009 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0The United States surrendered its democracy to vested interests a long time ago.Its evolution to a corporate state is now complete....as president Obama discovered recently when he took his health reform policies to the great american public.
Oct 06th, 2009 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The corporations immediately bought off congress and the evangelical right. Obama was condemned by the faithful as a ''demon'' and as a ''communist'' by the politicos.
if Estados Unidos wants to restore itself as a beacon of democracy then it must first restore its ability to understand what the word ''democracy'' actually means rather than just knowing it as a word from ancient greek.
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